Like a barnyard chicken or a miniature wild turkey, the little black bird scraped away at the leaves, using one foot at a time to reveal a seed or bug on the woodland floor, then employing both feet ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Condor: Ornithological Applications publishes original research, syntheses, and assessments focusing on the application of ...

Often missed by birders, particularly those of us who hear poorly, is one of our most attractive species — the eastern towhee. Until 1995, it was called the rufous-sided towhee, a very descriptive ...

McEnroe's first rufous-sided towhee in full frolic, while keeping an eye out for Caster Don and his all-weather mower. It's a new one for Steve McEnroe and his life list of birds. The towhee was a ...

The rufous-sided towhee, with its striking plumage, is a somewhat secretive member of the finch family that flits from beneath vegetation to visit feeders or scratch around in garden litter.

A selection of bird essays by renowned ornithologist and artist George Miksch Sutton (1898-1982), founder of the Avian Research Center in Norman, Okla., was posthumously published in 1986 as “Birds ...